Foreword-Special Issue on Metaheuristic Application and Operations Management

摘要

The Asia Pacific Industrial Engineering and Management Systems (APIEMS) Conferences are annual conferences organized by the Asia Pacific Industrial Engineering and Management Society. The core value of APIEMS is associating and exchanging the better industrial engineering education, researches, and exchange information from different coun- tries. Since the first APIEMS conference organized in 1998 in Beijing, China, APIEMS has rapidly emerged as an impor- tant forum for exchange of ideas and information about latest developments in the field of industrial engineering and management system among professionals from Asia-Pacific countries.